Garment hanger



Jan. 26, 1960 R. H. REYNOLDS 2,922,556

GARMENT HANGER Filed April 30, 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 i/JJ.

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GARMENT HANGER Filed April 30, 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. Yoaam' HREYuoLDs Z! ATTORNEYS,

ited Stats Patent GARMENT HANGER Robert H. Reynolds, Clarksdale, Miss.

Application April 30, 1957, Serial No. 656,112

2 Claims. (Cl. 223-95) The present invention relates to a hanger for supporting a pair of trousers, a skirt, or a like garment having a waist band.

An object of the present invention is to provide a hanger which lends itself to ready use in bedrooms or dressing rooms in homes, hotels, and other quarters, and one on which a skirt or pair of trousers, or other garment, may be easily and quickly supported in such a way "as to prevent wrinkling or creasing of such a garment, and one from which such garment may be easily and quickly removed.

Another object of the present invention is ,to provide a hanger for garments which lends itself to the support of a garment having a waist band in such a manner as to have the garment in an open condition for airing of the latter.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a garment hanger which is readily adjustable for support of various sizes of garments having waist bands.

A still further object of the present invention is to provide a garment hanger which is simplein structure, one sturdy in construction and having few parts, one which is economically manufactured and assembled, and one which is highly effective in action.

These and other objects andadvantages of the present invention will be fully apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is an isometric view of the garment hanger according to the present invention, a pair of trousers being shown in dotted lines and supported upon the garment hanger;

. Figure 2 is a sectional view, on an enlarged scale, taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a sectional view, on an enlarged scale, taken on the line 33 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is an exploded isometric view of the assembly shown in Figures 1 to 3, inclusive;

Figure 5 is an isometric view of a modified form of the garment hanger according to the present invention;

Figure 6 is a bottom plan view of the assembly shown in Figure 5, on an enlarged scale;

Figure 7 is a sectional view, on an enlarged scale taken on line 77 of Figure 5; and

Figure 8 is a sectional view taken on the line 8-8 of Figure 7, with parts broken away.

Referring in greater detail to the drawings, in which like numerals indicate like parts throughout the several views, the garment hanger according to the present invention comprises a vertically disposed holding member 10 having an upper portion 11 and a lower portion 12 of greater thickness than the upper portion 11. The lower portion 12 of the member 10 is provided with a horizontally disposed slot 13 extending inwardly from the front face of the portion 12.

A pair of bars 14 and 15 are arranged in partially overlapping aligned relation and have their overlapping 2,922,556 Patented Jan. 26, 19.60

end portions slidably received within the slot 13 in the portion 12 of the member 10.

.A garment engaging element or arm 16 projects vertically from the free end of the bar 14 and another garment engaging element or arm 17 projects vertically from the free end of the bar 15. The portions, 18 and 19, adjacent the free end of the arms 16 and 17, respectively, are inwardly bowed and together with the arms 16 and 17 provide a means for frictionally engaging opposed .parts of the waist band of a garment such as a pair of trousers indicated by the reference numeral 20 and shown in dotted lines in Figures 1 and 2.

Releasable locking means is operatively connected to the slot 13 in the lower portion 12 of the member 10 for securing the bars 14 and 15 in any selected position of their horizontal movement. Specifically, this means comprises a'shortsection of rod 21having a flat side 22 receivable within a bore 23 formed contiguous with the slot 13 inwardly of the open end of the latter. The rod 21 is rotatable from a position, indicated by the reference numeral 21' in which the rounded side of the rod opposite to the flat side 22 is in abutting relation with respect to the side edges of the adjacent portions of the bars 14 and 15 to a position indicated by the reference numeral 21" in which the flat side of the rod 21 is spaced from and faces the side edges of the bars 14 and 15. This permits the bars 14 and 15 to be moved longitudinally relative to each other within the slot 13 for adjustment of the total length of the bars 14 and 15 sothat the arms 16 and 17 present invention fits a waistband of a certain length. Adjusted positions of the arms 14 and 15 are shown in Figure 2 in dotted lines.

In Figures 5 to 8, inclusive, a modified form of the invention is shown in which there is a v holding member 30 embodying apair of segments 31 and 32 arranged in side-by-side relation and a pair of bars 33 and 34 arranged so that each has a portion adjacent the confronting end fixedly attached to the adjacent one of the segments 31 or 32, the bar 33 being attached to the segment 31 and the bar 34 being attached to the segment 32.

This form of the invention includes a horizontally disposed trackway 35, of inverted L-shaped cross section, for securement to a vertical supporting surface, the short leg of the trackway 35 having dependingly attached thereto a channel member 36 opened downwardly and supporting therein slide members 37 fixedly attached to the upper end of each of the arms 38 and 39 which project forwardly from the trackway 35 and have at their free ends the segments 31 and 32 dependingly secured thereto. The arms 38 and 39 constitute means connecting the bars 33 and 34 to the trackway 35 for movement relative to each other, and also connecting the segments 31 and 32 to the trackway 35.

Arms 40 and 41 project vertically from the non-confronting end of each of the bars 33 and 34, respectively, and the portion adjacent the free end of each of the arms 40 and 41 is bowed inwardly and together with the arms 40 and 41 provide means for frictionally engaging 0pposed parts of the waist band of a garment when the latter is positioned with the arms 40 and 41 within the waist band of such garment.

Releasable locking means is operatively connected to the segments 31 and 32 of the holding member 30 for fixedly securing the segments 31 and 32 and the associated bars 33 and 34, respectively, in any selected position of of the spring 44 is anchored to the rear face of the upright portion of the holding member segment 32 below the point of attachment of the latter to the one arm 39. The arm 39 has an aperture extending vertically therethrough as designated by the reference numeral 45 in Figure 7 through which extends a short length of rod 46 serving as an actuating member for bending the free end of the spring 44 to the position in which the associated pin 43 is out of the selected one of the holes 42.

A pair of pulleys 47 are mounted, one at each end of the channel member 36, on the underside of the trackway 35 and carry thereover a flexible cord 48 having its end fixed to the underside of the one arm 39. An intermediate portion of the cord 48 is secured to the other arm 38 so that upon manual movement of the one arm 39 the other arm 38 moves toward and away from the arm 39. Indicia, indicated by the reference numeral 49 in Figure represents the point at which the arm 39 should be moved so that the free ends of the bars 33 and 34 may accommodate a Waist band of a particular length. An upright post 50 cooperates with the indicia 45 for positioning the arm 39 at a selected distance away from the arm 38.

In use, the garment hanger referring to the present invention may be installed within a bedroom or dressing room of any home, hotel, motel, or other sleeping quarters for the purpose of supporting thereon the garments of an individual. It will be found that in each of'the forms of the invention shown the arms 16 and 17 on the ends of the bars 14 and 15, or the arms 40 and 41 on the ends of the bars 33 and 34, will effectively support a garment having a waist band in substantially an open condition permitting the airing of such garment. In each of the forms of the invention, it is intended that the bars 14 and 15, and the bars 33 and 34, be fabricated of a resilient material so that the weight of a garment when hung thereon tends to swing the vertical arms 16 and '17, or arms 40 and 41, outwardly to increase the frictional engagement of such arms with the garment waist band.

What is claimed is:

1. In a garment hanger, a vertically disposed holding member having an upper portion adapted to be attached to a vertical supporting surface and having a lower portion of greater thickness than said upper portion, said portion of greater thickness having a transversely extending slot formed therein, a pair of bars arranged in partially overlapping aligned relation positioned horizontally with respect to said holding member and passing into the slot in the thickened portion of said holding member for movement relative to each other, a garment engaging element on the free end of each of said bars, and latch means carried by the thickened portion of said holding member and simultaneously engaging adjacent portions of said bars for fixedly securing said bars in any selected position of their horizontal movement.

2. In a garment hanger, a vertically disposed holding member having an upper portion adapted to be attached to a vertical supporting surface and having a lower portion of greater thickness than said upper portion, said portion of greater thickness having a' transversely extending slot formed therein, a pair of bars arranged in partially overlapping aligned relation positioned horizontally with respect to said holding member and passing into the slot in the thickened portion of said holding member for movement relative to each other, an arm projecting vertically from the free end of each of said bars, the portion adjacent the free end of each arm being References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Laubin June 28, 1892 666,235 Osgood Jan. 15, 1901 960,549 Hoffman June 7, 1910 

